Belinda Jane Earl OBE (born 20 December 1961) is a British businesswoman, and a non-executive director of Woolworths Holdings Limited (RSA) in addition is a senior advisor to NewtonEurope as well as other retail advisory and mentor positions.
[1] Earl was born in Plymouth, Devon, and attended St Dunstan's Abbey School for Girls.
She started working as a Saturday assistant in the menswear department of her local Debenhams[1] at the age of 16, and managed a gift shop.
Her planned six weeks' absence made headlines of some national newspapers as a relatively long time for a chief executive to take off work.
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to retail.